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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1922
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‡CLAMFURLOCK, n. "A rough cast in clay, such as used to be made to hold a candle in the days of the cruisie, or 'eely' lamp, when candlesticks in the houses of the poor were a 'sicht for sair een'" (Abd. 1931 J.W. in Abd. Press and Jnl. (11 Feb.)).Abd.(D) 1922 J. Wight in Swatches o' Hamespun 64:
He . . . lichtit a cannle-doup, stuck in a clamfurlock, set in a bole abeen the bink.
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